Coca-Cola, JBF Industries plan Brazilian renewable glycols unit

6:21 AM MDT | October 5, 2012 | â€”Rebecca Coons

Coca-Cola says it has partnered with JBF Industries (Mumbai) to expand production of biobased ethylene glycol (EG) for its partially biobased polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. JBF will build the worldâ€™s largest biobased EG plant in SĂŁo Paulo using sugarcane and sugarcane processing waste as feedstock. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. PlantBottle: Coca-Cola has already sold over 10 billion beverage servings in 20% renewable PET packaging. Construction on the facility is expected...